virtualbox, was: Re: Kali Linux

[John G Heim]

My script is pretty muchjust the vboxmanage commands from a blog entry I 
found by googling. Here is alink to the blog:
http://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/create-virtualbox-vm-from-the-command-line.html

The only thing I did differently was to swap the order of the command to 
create the virtual machine (createvm) and the command to create the 
virtual hard disk (createhd). This allowed me to create the virtual hard 
disk inside the same folder as the virtual machine. That's not necessary 
and depending on your setup, might be counter-productive. I prefer it so 
I can keep everything tidy.

On 05/05/2015 11:08 AM, Don Raikes wrote:
> If anyone has some command-line scripts for virtualbox they would be willing to share, I would greatly appreciate the assistance.  I was working on a set of scripts a couple of years ago, but can't find them now, and need to get vbox up and running pretty quickly.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John G Heim [mailto:jheim at math.wisc.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 8:20 AM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: virtualbox, was: Re: Kali Linux
>
> I am using virtualbox to try to create a version of grml that comes up I've been using virtualbox to try to create a version of grml that comes up talking. I have virtual machines for straight debian, grml32, and grml64. It's pretty nice. I'm not sure if I  prefer virtualbox or vmware player. Virtualbox has a really powerful and well docummented command line interface. So I was able to script the process of creating virtual machines.  Virtualbox stores it's config files in an xml file and it has a warning at the top of each file not to edit it. VMware stores it config files in plain text that is easily edited in any text editor.
> I've many times changed the boot order of a virtual machine by just going in and editing it in the config file. But if you're not intimidated by xml, you could probably edit the config files for virtualbox too.
>
> One other thing that I really liked about virtualbox was that you can get a screen capture. At first, when I have having trouble getting virtual machines to start, I'd take a screen cap and run it through tesseract to see why it was stuck. I was even able to check the network configuration on a Windwos virtual machine this way. I was pretty sure the Windows virtual machine was running so I pressed the keys to open a command window, windows+r, cmd. Then in the command window, I type "ipconfig /all". Then I got the screen cap and was able to check the network config. Pretty cool.
>
> But it turns out vmware can do that too.
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2255477/how-to-make-screenshots-using-vmware-tool-vmrun
>
>
> On 05/03/2015 05:27 PM, Igor Gueths wrote:
>> I'm actually running VirtualBox on a Debian host:
>> igueths at holly:~$ uname -a
>> Linux holly 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt7-1 (2015-03-01)
>> x86_64 GNU/Linux On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 10:23:31PM -0700, Don Raikes
>> wrote:
>>> So vbox works with nvda but not with jaws?  I am a jaws user primarily, but I could if necessary switch to nvda for working with vbox I suppose.
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Gregory Nowak [mailto:greg at gregn.net]
>>> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 3:42 PM
>>> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>>> Subject: Re: virtualbox, was: Re: Kali Linux
>>>
>>> Early on, virtualbox was using qt3 under which the GUI was indeed not accessible. This has changed since they started using qt4, and that was at least two years ago if not more. When I used to use the builds of virtualbox using qt4 under windows xp, and wineyes 6.1, it was quiet accessible. Nowadays, I'm using virtualbox 4.3.x on windows7 home premium with the latest nvda, and that is quiet accessible also.
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 08:29:01AM -0700, Don Raikes wrote:
>>>> Igor et al,
>>>>
>>>> How are you getting virtualbox to work on windows? The last time I tried it (about a year ago) the gui was totally inaccessible with jaws.  I would really appreciate knowing how others are getting it to work since my laptop can't handle vmware workstation maybe it will handle virtualbox instead.
>>>
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